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Judge temporarily blocks DOE’s move to slash university research funding
A group of universities led by the American Association of Universities (AAU) acted swiftly to oppose a policy action by the Department of Energy that would cut the funds it pays to universities for the indirect costs of research under DOE grants. The group filed suit Monday, April 14, challenging a what it termed a “flagrantly unlawful action” that could “devastate scientific research at America’s universities.”
By Wednesday, the U.S. District Court judge hearing the case issued a temporary restraining order effective nationwide, preventing the DOE from implementing the policy or terminating any existing grants.
Takashi Okazaki, Takuro Honda, Yasushi Seki, Tomoaki Kunugi, Isao Aoki
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 32 | Number 2 | September 1997 | Pages 296-303
Technical Paper | Safety/Environmental Aspect | doi.org/10.13182/FST97-A19899
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The concept for a plasma shutdown system has been studied for fusion experimental reactors. An impurity pellet injection system is proposed as the plasma shutdown system. The density limit disruption is employed by using impurity pellet injection. The pellet size and its injection velocity are obtained with an evaluation model of the tearing mode and a model of pellet ablation. The main functions of the impurity pellet injection system are checked by the trial manufacturer. The concept for this plasma shutdown system is extended to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER).
